Researchers examine a pivotal opportunity in detecting and preventing early-onset colorectal cancer.
The Graduate Archer Fellowship Program offers outstanding graduate students from across the University of Texas System a unique opportunity to live, learn, and work in Washington, DC.
A nationally recognized leader in the field of biostatistics and data science, Samiran Ghosh PhD, steps into his new role as Chair of the Department of Biostatistics and Data Science
Alumna Angela Branch-Vital, PhD, has been named the Inaugural Dean of the Prairie View A&M University School of Public and Allied Health.
October 31, 2022
Asha Kapadia, PhD, and Kay Dunn, PhD, were trailblazers who excelled academically and professionally, emerging as role models in the male-dominated field of biostatistics.
October 28, 2022
A beta version of a powerful new tool designed to help people find and use data about community conditions in Bexar County, led by Laura McKieran, PhD of UTHealth Houston School of Public Health San Antonio, has been launched by Community Information Now (CI:Now).
October 24, 2022
Funded by the National Heart Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), the “Trauma Resuscitation with Group O Whole Blood Or Products” (TROOP) trial will enroll 1,200 patients at 12 trauma centers across the United States, to compare whole blood transfusions to blood component therapy, the current standard in trauma transfusions. Enrollment for TROOP will begin in spring 2023.
October 21, 2022
Andrew Springer, DrPH, associate professor, Department of Health Promotion and Behavioral Sciences at UTHealth Houston School of Public Health, has been recognized by the University of Texas Regents for his "extraordinary dedication" to students.
October 20, 2022
Throughout her career, Barnes has focused on addressing health inequities. Her work with EHF expands that focus, as it works towards taking on the underlying, non-medical factors that impact health.
October 7, 2022
The UTHealth Houston Institute for Implementation Science and the Texas Developmental Center for AIDS Research (Texas D-CFAR), a collaboration between Baylor College of Medicine, UTHealth Houston and Texas Biomedical Research Institute, recently received funding from the National Institutes of Health to establish the new Texas Implementation Science Hub to End HIV (Texas IS Hub).
September 28, 2022
Hispanic communities tend to be understudied in genetics research, and the cohort addresses this absence by studying the surrounding Mexican American population in this area.
September 22, 2022
Restrepo's research shows that the community at the Texas-Mexico border has among the highest prevalence of type 2 Diabetes among tuberculosis patients worldwide.
September 19, 2022
This collaboration between researchers from UTHealth School of Public Health, along with the UAMS, BCM, and Texas Department of State Health Services, determined that hypospadias, which affects 1 out of 200 boys born in the U.S., co-occurs with CHDs.
August 22, 2022
While the paper utilized pre-COVID-19 data, the researchers say their findings suggest that COVID-era gig workers will likely see an even greater increase in poor overall health and psychological distress.
